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Nokia Network Voyager for IPSO 4.0 Reference Guide 249
6 Configuring SNMP
This chapter describes the Nokia IPSO implementation of Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) and how to configure it on your system.
SNMP Overview
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the Internet standard protocol used to
exchange management information between network devices. SNMP works by sending
messages, called protocol data units (PDUs), to different parts of a network. SNMP-compliant
devices, called agents, store data about themselves in Management Information Bases (MIBs)
and return this data to the SNMP requesters.
IPSO implements UCD-SNMP 4.0.1 as the base version of SNMP. Changes have been made to
the base version to address security and other fixes. For more information on Net-SNMP, go to
http://www.net-snmp.org.
Caution
If you use SNMP, Nokia strongly recommends that you change the community strings
for security purposes. If you do not use SNMP, you should disable the community
strings.
SNMP, as implemented on Nokia platforms, supports the following:
GetRequest, GetNextRequest, GetBulkRequest, and a select number of traps. The Nokia
implementation also supports SetRequest for three attributes only: sysContact,sysLocation,
and sysName. You must configure a read-write community string to enable set operations.
SNMP v1, v2, and v3. For more information about SNMP v3, see “Managing SNMP
Users.”
Note
The Nokia implementation of SNMPv3 does not yet support SNMPv3 traps.
Other public and proprietary MIBs as follows.